Snapshots

Skinny girls have it too? GOOD!! You made my day! :D

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Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin

Girls, they’re funny, but still
they have something, you know?
They might be skinny
as a stalk of stinkweed and walk with a list,
but still...

Or there might be three of them
on their way home from school
like cupcakes leaning together,
t-shirts hanging out
over regulation black shorts...

And then they grow up
to be women.

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They are exactly what you portrayed. Maybe boys to before they grow into full blown manhood. Funny and therefore interesting in their babyhood and mature and they lose the sheen of life.

A woman prowls
one of the aisles at Loblaw’s

crackers
rice cakes
tinned meat
tinned fish
soup

treading cautiously
on the balls of her feet
lest she alert her prey

And don't some go about this like a hunt? I have been snorted at while an old woman paws the floor, head down for charging, over the last 3 cans of chicken broth at Thanksgiving.

I liked the aisle effect.

Sounds like a very austere diet, though.

:blush: I feel like a behind for being so behind on this thread. I am enjoying it very much! What a wonderful little book this would be bound up in a cover that looks like a small photo album.

"I think, therefore I am."

Descartes

I think, therefore I am Descartes.

Newman

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Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin

"I think, therefore I am."

Descartes

I think, therefore I am Descartes.

Newman

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:D


Well, the forum's against my alacritous comments!

Two bicyclists
glide by on Fairmount
as if in slow motion.
I watch them.

I continue to watch them.

strange. how strange.

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Originally Posted by kelby_lake

strange. how strange.

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Would you elaborate, please, on what you find strange about this?

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Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin

Would you elaborate, please, on what you find strange about this?

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Maybe you should have blinked. :D Sorry, I don't know what is strange either.

A woman walks by
so lightly
she carries the sound of her footsteps
away with her

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Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin

"I think, therefore I am."

Descartes

I think, therefore I am Descartes.

Newman

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I think
I like
this! :)

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A woman walks by
so lightly
she carries the sound of her footsteps
away with her

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Beautiful, I can picture her now. :thumbs_up

Like a procession of pelicans
a troupe of high-school seniors
waddled efficiently down the lane ahead of me
in identical white T-shirts, black shorts,
their legs pumping
in and out of synch,
a visual symphony.

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Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin

Two bicyclists
glide by on Fairmount
as if in slow motion.
I watch them.

I continue to watch them.

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It's strange
BECAUSE
WELL I wrote a 2000 word essay on WHY
but my computer froze (f---ing idiot!)
It's strange BECAUSE
It's slow motion because of the perception of the viewer, not the movement of the bicyclists.
Or not.
Time is perception,
but if there's nothing there to perceive (the bicyclists are gone)
why is that nothing still measured by time. Is it something else?
Or are they just one...
some merging of the other person into yourself, so that you lose that person for a moment, but gain that person as your self,
so time stops because they don't cease to exist in your world -
they don't MOVE AWAY, they stay FOREVER.

heehee.